MidAtlantic Midrange is proud to offer the next in our continuing education seminars, bringing you the best education and educators available in the iSeries world, and to do so at User Group Rates.

Integrating Email, Chart Engines, WDSC, SOAP, XML... And Beyond
With Aaron Bartell

Easy Email Using RPG: Learn how to easily send email from your iSeries RPG programs using open source software RPGMail. Make your boss happy and take this code home to gain immediate RPG Summit ROI. Not only will you have a free utility (RPGMail) to put on your iSeries after leaving this session but you will also get a full understanding of how the guts work in conjunction with Sun's JavaMail API's to send email directly to your mail server (i.e. Microsoft Exchange), completely by-passing the problematic iSeries MSF (Mail Server Framework). Don't miss this one!

RPG Chart Engine (Pie, Bar, and XY Line charts): Users are always wanting more eye-candy in your deliverables to them. Learn how to easily create graphical charts using RPG and Java open source utilities - something you can gain immediate ROI as a take home for your shop. As we dive into the guts of RPG calling Java we will talk about the snail paced startup of Java applications incurred during JVM (Java Virtual Machine) initialization and address it by adding a data queue messaging layer between the RPG and Java. This creates an environment where the JVM startup occurs only once per machine allowing your Java to run entirely in batch!

RPG Talks To The Desktop: Every so often, I see the mailing lists address the topic of how to automatically open desktop applications from RPG when the user presses a key in a 5250 session. Usually, the need is to open a browser window and deep link into a Web site by passing a long URL string (e.g., http://ups.com/trackpackage?packageid=Z123412341234). The standard answer is to use one of the features in Client Access (i.e., STRPCO or STRPCCMD). While that works in some cases, an alternative approach is to spin your own wool. That's where I come in.

This session provides instructions (and actual code) for integrating your RPG programs with the desktop by using a relatively small amount of Java. The basic concept is that you provide a non-intrusive Java application on each PC that needs to receive calls from RPG, and when you start the Java client, it just sits in a wait state to receive commands from your RPG program. When I say "commands," I really mean any value you want to send down to the PC; the key is to have Java handle it appropriately. The Java client receives commands and executes them using rundll32, which is a nifty tool on your Windows PC that allows the execution of command-line access programs.

SOAP, XML, WSDL, XSD, HTTP - what the?: There are so many acronym technologies out there in the new web service paradigm, like SOAP, WSDL, XSD, etc. How does one make sense of them all, and how does one know how they fit together to accomplish a web service task? Attend this session and you will learn how these technologies work together from an RPG programmers perspective. You will quickly realize that there is no magic going on but instead the same practices of programming that have been going on for decades - it just has a new face now.

WDSC - The First Kiss: Don't let your first experience with WDSC be your last kiss goodbye. Learn the quickest path to successful use of WDSC for RPG programmers. In this session we will cover initial startup, creating/editing/compiling RPG programs, how to "customize" your environment, and much more! Learn from somebody who has been using it for the past 5 years!

Aaron Bartell is a Senior Software Developer and focuses much of his development in the area of web services on the AS400 and also Java development/integration. He is the lead developer of RPG-XML Suite (www.rpg-xml.com). He enjoys being part of the strong System i community through forum participation, article writing and providing open source software. Aaron is a regular speaker at COMMON.

These seminar starts at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM and will be held on:

Oct 21 - At EDPS (Electronic Data Processing Services), 3901 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA
Oct 22 - Holiday Inn College Park, College Park, MD (Beltway and US-1)

The course fee is $295 for non-user group members and $250 for user group members. This fee offering is a special arrangement between Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members of other AS/400 User groups may also apply under the user group rate.

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